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Headword: Allos
Adler number: alpha,1334
Translated headword: another
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Meaning different. Homer: "who hides one thing in his mind, and says another."[1] It is used also instead of "someone". "Whenever some other...."[2]
Also [sc. attested is] a)/llws te, ["one way or another"] meaning especially.
And elsewhere: "you will bear lambs, one white, another dark, for Ge and Helios: for Zeus we will bring another."[3]
In [sc. correct] Greek, in the case of two things, one is distinguished from the other with e(/teron; for the third, one says a)/llo.
Greek Original:
Allos: anti tou heteros. Homêros: hos ch' heteron men keuthei eni phresin, allo de eipêi. tassetai de kai anti tou tis. hoppote ken kai allos. kai Allôs te anti tou malista. kai authis: oisete d' arn', heteron leukon, heterên de melainan Gêi te kai Êeliôi: Diï d' hêmeis oisomen allon. Hellênikôs epi men toin duoin to heteron tôi heterôi antidiestalken, epi de tou tritou, allon eirêken.
Notes:
Similar material, variously, in other lexica; references at Photius alpha1009 Theodoridis.
[1] Homer, Iliad 9.313; cf. epsilon 3292.
[2] Homer, Odyssey 11.127.
[3] Homer, Iliad 3.103-104, with scholion.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 30 May 2000@12:04:51.
Vetted by:
William Hutton (Changed wording, added citation.) on 30 May 2000@15:58:47.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 4 September 2001@23:42:47.
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Catharine Roth (betacode, tweak, cross-reference) on 10 September 2007@11:37:24.
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